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Managing Microsoft Applications with Cisco UCS Manager & PowerTool

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The Best Data Center Is One You Never Notice

It Is Agile, Efficient, And Simple

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Data Center Management ChallengesRequire a trade-off between quality, time and resources

Data CenterPerformance

Quality

ResourcesTime

Responsiveness diminishes as

complexity and demand increase

Different tools needed to manage each layer of the data center

Developing workarounds are costly and time

consuming

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End the need for trade-offs

Data CenterPerformance

Efficient

Agile

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ple

Quality

ResourcesTime

Microsoft Applications on Cisco Unified Compute System (UCS)

Agile:• Increase flexibility

• Deploy new services in minutes not weeks

• Respond to changing business environment

• Achieve scale more easily

Efficient:• Manage Costs• Reduce management and operational expense • Decrease the footprint required to deploy applications• Require less cabling, lower power and cooling costs

Simple:• Reduce complexity

• Control server and network architectures with a common OS

• Unify servers, storage, network and management

• Leverage existing tools and skill sets

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Microsoft System Center• A suite of tools that provide management, virtualization,

monitoring, and security for your data center

• Manage your physical and virtual IT environments across data centers, client computers and devices

Cisco UCS Manager• Manages Cisco UCS servers across multiple blade

chassis and rack servers as one logical, highly available entity with flexible service profiles

• Provides granular UCS visibility and control to Microsoft data center management tools through a comprehensive XML API

Integrated & Simple Management ToolsOptimize Your Data Center’s Functions

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• Employment of Cisco power to enhance your existing management tools and skill sets

• Utilization of a single Microsoft interface to manage, monitor, measure and automate at every layer

• Management of physical and virtual machines identically

UCS Manager & System Center Together Bring Unsurpassed Power, Control And Efficiency

UCS Manager seamlessly integrates with Microsoft System Center tools such as Operations Manager, Orchestrator and Virtual Machine Manager

Embedded in Cisco UCS products• Provides end-to-end management in the UCS platform

• Eliminates the need for an external management server

• Enables rapid provisioning and scaling of IT infrastructure

• Comprehensive XML API gives customers programmatic capability to choose their management tools

UCS Manager

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UCS PowerTool: Bringing More Power to PowerShell

Don’t reinvent the wheel…

The Essential Tool Kit• PowerShell is the common management platform used

across all Microsoft operating systems and applications

• UCS PowerTool is a Cisco-built, user-friendly, PowerShell-based library that Microsoft tools understand

• A simple way to utilize Windows PowerShell and customize tools to business needs

…build on it

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UCS Management and Integration PacksEase IT management through a single interface

“Single Pane of Glass”

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Case Study: Microsoft Partner Solutions Center

Challenge• Enhance virtualization infrastructure with new,

advanced server platform

• Update processor and memory availability and decrease data center footprint

• Improve virtualized services and create private cloud: 2,000+ virtual machines

• 4 people managing the infrastructure

Solution• 15 Cisco UCS blade servers

• Cisco UCS management capabilities integrated with System Center

Results• 1 day to migrate all virtual machines

• Achieved without service interruption in a production environment

• Fully automated provisioning - streamlined data center operations

• From 1 day to less than 1 hour - reduced deployment time for host servers

• Lowered power usage by 66% - resulting in major cost savings

“The MPSC lab environment runs end to end with System Center, Virtual Machine Manager and other Microsoft products… so the ability to manage the entire system through a single Systems Center-compatible console was a key factor in our decision process,”

- David Hayes, Senior Director, Microsoft Partner Solutions Center

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The Cisco and Microsoft Management AdvantageFreedom to choose. Freedom to innovate.

You take it from here…wherever you want

• more confidently

• more efficiently

• more economically

Empowers You To Manage

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Freedom to choose. Freedom to innovate.

• Investigate the possibilities with UCS Manager • Discover Cisco’s Microsoft solutions: www.cisco.com/go/microsoft

• Realize the power. Download Cisco’s PowerTool

The Cisco and Microsoft Advantage

Thank you.